Hello all you Sebastian Inlet fanactics, I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend! This report is going to be another short one, due mostly to the bad water conditions we’ve been having at the inlet for a few days now. The SE winds have muddied/silted up the water along the beaches south, and on the incoming tide it sucks it all into the inlet and just messes everything up, also to mention that the Sargassum weed has been a big problem as well. The surf water on the north side is pretty clean, but the Sargassum is terrible over there as well. The other good thing is that the water is starting to warm up to where it should be, 79 degrees as of this report. Another good thing is that there is bait fish everywhere now. Majorra on both sides of the inlet, and hand sized mullet running into the inlet.
While I was out on the north jetty last Tuesday and Wednesday doing some maintenance work and painting, I sew several nice schools of mullet all around the jetty, coming down the beach. Didn’t see any fish caught in any of the boats that were out there though. The water warming up, and the mullet showing up on the beach is a sign of good things to come. All that will help get some of the snook coming out the inlet and swimming the beach, and possibly feeding, and may also attract some tarpon as well. So if you fish the beach, be on the lookout for that.
The south side has been again, hit and miss. Both tides at the south jetty have been pretty dirty and weedy, so the fishing has been slow, except for the tip on the outgoing tide, where they have been catching some black margates, blue runners and small jacks. In the back around the T-dock and cleaning station has slowed down considerably, but there are a few slots and oversized snook being caught, you just need to be there when they decide to turn on! Bait back here has been plentiful, mullet and majorra.
That’s pretty much it in a nutshell for this week. Supposed to be nice all week, so grab your gear, water, some bait and get out and catch some dinner!
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